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The etymological reconstruction of the word, supported by preserved beliefs, allows us to connect the Iriy with the oldest Slavic ideas about the other world, which is located underground or beyond the sea, where the path lies through water, in particular, through a whirlpool. [4] The pagan Slavic peoples thought the birds flying away to Vyrai ...
Slavic Native Faith (Rodnovery) has a theology that is generally monistic, consisting in the vision of a transcendental, supreme God (Rod, "Generator") which begets the universe and lives immanentised as the universe itself (pantheism and panentheism), present in decentralised and autonomous way in all its phenomena, generated by a multiplicity of deities which are independent hypostases ...
According to the studies of Boris Rybakov, whirl and wheel symbols, which also include patterns like the hexafoil, "six-petalled rose inside a circle" (e.g. ) and the "Perun's sign", or "thunder wheel" (e.g. ), represent the thunder god Perun or the supreme God , expressing itself as power of birth and reproduction, in its various forms ...
The aviator Matilde Moisant wearing a swastika square medallion in 1912. The symbol was popular as a good luck charm with early aviators. The discovery of the Indo-European language group in the 1790s led to a great effort by European archaeologists to link the pre-history of European people to the hypothesised ancient "Aryans" (variously referring to the Indo-Iranians or the Proto-Indo ...
Zbruch Idol, Kraków Archaeological Museum Zbruch Idol. The Zbruch Idol, Sviatovid (Worldseer, Polish: Światowid ze Zbrucza; Ukrainian: Збручанський ідол) is a 9th-century limestone sculpture idol, [1] and one of the few monuments of pre-Christian Slavic beliefs [citation needed] (according to another interpretation, it was created by the Kipchaks/Cumans).
Statue of him had five heads, and importantly did not have any weapons. The meaning of the name is unclear, perhaps meaning "Lord of strength". [38] Porenut: Rani: Porenut is a god mentioned by Saxo Grammaticus and in the Knýtlinga saga. He was worshipped in Gardec on Rügen, where his temple was located, as well as Rugiaevit and Porevit. His ...
Although the relationship of this funerary urn to the Slavic culture has not been proven, similar symbols were found in the culture of the Slavs, e.g. as pysanka symbols collected by Kazimierz Moszyński from eastern Poland, Little Russia, and Serbo-Croatia, [7] as a symbol on a child's funerary vessel found in the Voronezh Oblast ...
The swastika, which is found on Slavic patterns (on embroidery and ornaments of weapons and armor), is a traditional symbol. 19th-century Russian embroidery from Velikoustyuzhsky Uyezd, Vologda Governorate [1] Picture of an urn from 1941 and the coat of arms of Litzmannstadt (occupied Łódź), based on the swastika from the urn. [2]